Sports Fest!!

Pre Sports Fest
On Wednesday the year 5,6,7 and 8s are going to a big sports event and playing different games. I'm writing this segment before the sports fest and I'm not sure what to  expect apart from playing dodge ball because I signed up for it.


After Sports Fest   
On the day of the sports fest we travelled by bus to a few different locations for the different sports. The 2 dodge ball teams for our school were dropped off 3rd at Kilburni  Rec.


when we went inside we saw that there were lots of teams that we had to play against. Despite all the difficult looking teams both of our ST Bens teams managed to secure a solid third place and win a trophy. I think the venue worked well apart from that the back wall of the court wasn't very high and balls sometimes flew over it.
The only thing I would change is make the back wall higher.
I think that I was pretty good in the team and at one point I got a crucial out.


For me dodge ball was awesome and I really want to do it next sports fest. 




  

A new flag

Recently New Zealand have started to consider changing the flag,

out of the options presented here are my top 4.

Koru and stars by Alan Tran

I like this design because it is like the current one except with a koru witch feels original. 

HuiHui by Sven Baker
I like this design because I think it represents Maoris and NZ Europeans joining together.

Unity Fern by Paul Jackways

I like this one for its clever design and good colour combination.

Embrace by Denise Fung

Another flag I think represents Maoris and NZ Europeans coming together.

That was my top four here are my reasons for having the new flag and keeping the current one.

Changing the flag

 -Don't always get the chance.

 -Often mistaken for other countries.

 - New flag designs are really cool.

Keeping the flag

 -Done so much under current flag.

 - Ties us to Australia.

 -We would have to change sports uniforms and we couldn't have the all blacks.

I hope you have enjoyed this post and support my flag choices and if I had a fifth choice it would be Black jack #Blackjack!!

   

Haiku

Recently our class has been getting in to haiku poems, haiku is a style of poetry witch traditionally have 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the next and 5 in the last line but can be different,  here are some examples.


Antarctica
A frigid wasteland
its like an endless winter
be very careful


Space
The planets go round
orbiting our only star
as the year goes by


Winter
The tree sways gently
 in the nippy winter breeze
as I watch nature


Those are a few haikus I have written in my spare time,  I think haikus are really cool so please comment with yours if you want

Art!!!

Recently our class has been making Aztec masks as part of our Aztec project, we found pictures of real Aztec masks on the internet and copied them.

After we were satisfied with our drawings we glued pieces of paper on to make them look more like masks, heres my one.
I used various blues and blacks and whites to make mine then I did a border to finish it off.

I think I improved with my collage skills over the course of doing this activity and that doing another collage activity would be coll for our schools art exhibition.

Our Aztec masks are quite easy to do and they don't take to long if you want comment and send me a pick of an Aztec mask if you make one.    

Dinner Party

Who would you invite to a dinner party if one person had to be real and another fictional? For me it would have to be Pikachu (from Pokémon) and Veronica Roth (author of Divergent)


Me: "So Pika-."
Pikachu: "Pikachu!"
Me: "So Veronica what inspired you to write Divergent?"
Veronica: "I don't know Mahon, I guess the idea just came to me."
Pikachu: "Pikachu!"
Veronica: "Why did you invite Pikachu of all people to this hypothetical dinner party?"
Me: "I thought it was a great idea at the time."
Pikachu: "Pikachu"
Me: "Shut up Pikachu!"
Veronica: "I think its best if we wrap up this dinner party Mahon besides I need to get started on the next Divergent book."
Me: "Oh all right but only because Divergent is my favourite book series."
Pikachu: "Pikachu!"
Me: "Bye Veronica Bye Pikachu."
Veronica: "Bye Mahon, you can have the very first copy of the next Divergent book."
Pikachu: "Pikachu"


That concludes my dinner party, who would you invite to a dinner party? I'd like to hear from you please comment!